The Car: THE CAR

There are drive-in movies, restaurants, laundries, banks and even churchesso
why not a drive-in funeral home? Atlanta Mortician Hirschel
Thornton, 49, will open one this week. The world's first monument to
automotive mourning consists of five picture-windowed viewing rooms
frontin on a curved, gravel driveway. So that
drive-in mourners will not have to peer through rain-streaked windows,
Thornton has covered the driveway with a roof. Another thoughtful
touch: the windows reach almost to the ground, enabling passengers in
even the lowest-slung foreign sports cars to get a good look without
having to crane their necks unduly.